What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

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.

To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

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.