I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

The basic and essential human is the woman.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.