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

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 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.

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

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

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