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.

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

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

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

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.