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

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!

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.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're trying to make it look good, but you feel like you're just working on your own.

I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

Let's do something beautiful for God.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.