Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.