“Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.”

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn’t have to.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

In the theater, I’ve found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles.

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

I’ll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense – adapting one-self to circumstances – and a sense of humor.

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Never darken my Dior again!

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

I had to lull mom and hank into believing i was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If i exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black love sucks tee, my plan would never get off the ground.

I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.

Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.