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

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

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

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

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

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