I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

You know, I've had a helluva life.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry.

The way Bunker loved me, so fully, clearly, and without exception, helped me remember every day to try to bring that kind of love to myself and others in my life.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people.

When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!