Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Never darken my Dior again!

Do more listening than talking

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

I suppose when some people see you on TV, they expect you to be this flamboyant, champagne-drinking stud. But I'm not like that.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.