The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Genius is becoming something you were all along.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

It takes discipline to be a free spirit.

I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.