I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.