You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.