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

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.

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.

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.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

Being able to laugh got me through.