You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Bravery is listening even when you don't want to hear it.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!