If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

You give because you love and cannot help giving.

I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.

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.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.