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

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?

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.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

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

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.

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