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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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