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

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

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.

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

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

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