There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

Every one has strengths. Turn your strengths into competencies for your success and you are responsible for your success

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

Just try. Try to try.