Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

War makes early risers of us all.