It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

In the end, just three things matter:How well we have livedHow well we have lovedHow well we have learned to let go

The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

When we do for others, we can't help but be touched by the love and generosity we thought we were giving away.

I don't think we've ever had a president who has more disdain for Washington than Barack Obama does, and he does things with executive orders or rules that you don't even see.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.