Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless. It demonstrates the endless multiplicity of aspects; it takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows us the thing in all the manifold significance and infinite variety that preclude the emergence of any single meaning and view.
Defeat may be victory in disguise.
I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!