The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
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.
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.