When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

I don’t think anyone knew I could act until I put on a bathing suit.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.

For Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

So many people have understanding, but in reality, they don’t really understand understanding! When you really understand understanding, you get a real understanding!

True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

Rock should never be in bed with politics.

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.