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

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

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.

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

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

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?