In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

Your heart can be broken, but your soul never bleeds.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.

I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.