The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

You know, I've had a helluva life.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.

There's that issue of if you attack someone you don't know where the votes are going to go.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.