“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.”

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve

I work to stay alive.

I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.

It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Your luck is how you treat people.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

You should surround yourself with people that believe in you, in life, and in business.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world – but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

God doesn’t expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

To bloom is to grow. To grow is to know the one who created x Died for my soul.