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.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Old age ain't for sissies

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

I believe one should be a woman at home.