The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

When you slow down and focus on completing one task at a time, your life will automatically diversify.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I would like to make one thing quite clear. ... I never explain anything.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.