We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.