A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two