Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity of a being.

Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God’s] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.