The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

When you have more than you need, make your table longer, not your fence higher.

Gratitude is like the stem of the flower

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

Users are not designers.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible.