The most important thing I can do for my children is to protect them and to teach them. After that, it's up to them to be and do their best in life.

If you want to win the heart of a person, first win the perception

You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

Sometimes a smile is all that is needed to change a person’s day and it cost me nothing to give.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?