It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.
If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.
Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.
I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.
The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.
If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.