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.

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?

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

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

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.