when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably.To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably.

Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

This is what it's like to get old: you still feel 19, except your knees hurt...

The brain, to be sure, is indeed the physical embodiment of the mind, the organ through which the mind finds expression and through which it acts in the world.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.