I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.

I wanted to hate you, but I just couldn't.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.