If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

When life gives you something that makes you feel afraid, that's when life gives you a chance to be brave.

I had a vision of what it would look like if like seventy people at the same time went nuts and sprayed water everywhere.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal.

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

You have to love dancing to stick to it.

We must try to contribute joy to the world.

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.