Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

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.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.