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

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.

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

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.

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

As an actor, throughout three years, I've become more comfortable within my own skin and confident.

A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.