[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...

I lost my freedom for so many years. Until he entered my cage. Him, with the black eyes and blacker soul.

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

Music takes us where words cannot.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.