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You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.
Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.
If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?
I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.
A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.
The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.
In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.
Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.
Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
If you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.
I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom
I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.
I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.
The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.
Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.
Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.
I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.
If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.
The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.
Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.
I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.
They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.
It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."