Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread.

Christians have the spiritual mandate to establish the Kingdom of God in their own lives and in their society.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm…how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.

In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it.