Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.