A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse..

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes..

When history calls, history calls..

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl..

The only thing I was any good at was music..

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions..

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method..

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults..

Don't cut off your nose yourself..

Spite will make a woman do more than love..

The anchor holds in spite of the storm.

After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments..

Legend remains victorious in spite of history..

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature..

I became a writer in spite of my environments..

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be..

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself..

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out..

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out..

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all..