Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.