You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.