After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.