If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Death is my neighbor now.

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Music is the true elixir of life.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.