I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

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.

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.

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.

Gold is the corpse of value...

The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men.

Every brain is different. And so must be every course of therapy.

The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious.

You say be honest, but honestly you don't want honesty

Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

You can't get anywhere flying under the radar.

You don't endorse error, you allow it.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

My mom beat me up," I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically.