I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

You were almost like a haiku: said so little, but meant so much.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan