Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

The Postman Always RingsTwice.

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.

Illuminate the opposition.

There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

Honestly, the challenge about being a mom is when something goes wrong - someone's sick, getting someone to doctor's appointments.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.