Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
In this business, until you’re known as a monster, you’re not a star
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.
To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.