I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.

Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault.

Life is not about having and getting. It's about being and becoming.

I had these slinky eyes and a sense of humor.

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.

I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.

I got rid of all those reporters.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.