The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

When I grow up, I want to be an actress. But I want to be a legend of something.

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing