"An actress always knows when she’s hit it and mostly you haven’t; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that’s good enough for one life."

“Stardom can be a gilded slavery.”

“The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo’s Camille pale.”

“Actors work and slave — and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.”

“The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.”

“The truth that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”

“One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.”