The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Do not lose heart.

Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire. Jest not with a rude man, lest thine ancestors be disgraced

I have tremendous respect for women.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

For upon all the glory shall be a defense

It's very important to instill values in children.

It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.