Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.