Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.