In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.

The only real failure is the failure to try.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

There's nothing good about being my age.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

And yet methinks the older that one growsInclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughterLeaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

I am a gangsta, Ms. Katie. I don't take nothing from no one. I do what I wanna do.

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.