I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

I am successful and I love the fact that being successful allows me to choose the 'when', 'why', 'where' and 'how' of spending my time and energy.

Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

I don't think the problem that we have today is overzealous believers. I think the problem we have is underzealous believers.

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams. The world needs that special gift that only you have.

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.