I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.

Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.

Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger.

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live, I tell you.

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

Humor is a good way in general to get people together, I think. Of course, Danish humor is more ironic and sarcastic altogether.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

The most you get is what you ask for.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.