We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn't bite and has a great tackle.

His face is so calm, He shows no sign of stress or anything. Its as if he's saying, "No problem. Relax. I'm just going to beat you now. It's not going to hurt a bit."

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.