I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.