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

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

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.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

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

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

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.