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

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

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

[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act..

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

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

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficu….

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,….

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 vi….

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the mo….

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

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 fr….

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