[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.