The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.