The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Obsessing over a boy makes the time fly.

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

We have to be much tougher. We have to be much stronger than we've been.

I'm surprized Hitler didn't round up the toupee people.

I'm not big on commissions.

I want to say to all the young women out there, as I say to all young people: believe in yourselves, follow your passion and never give up, because you will create a future filled with possibility.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.