Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.

The Good News is the gospel of Truth.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.

Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested.

... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.