Phrases

-As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.

-If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

-Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

-If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

-If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

-You are the only person you can actually change

-I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.

-Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

-If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

-You can’t change the music of your soul.

-Don’t give in! Make your own trail. Don’t moan. Don’t complain. Think positively.

-Never complain. Never explain.

-I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

-Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.

-What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

-You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

-It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.

-Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

-You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

-I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone

-Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.

-If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

-Loved people are loving people.

-I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

-The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.

-If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

-Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

-Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you’ve got to reach and take it… There are too many people alone, and if you’re lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it’s an obligation.

-“Isn’t it fun getting older?” is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

-When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

-I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

-Enemies are so stimulating.

-Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

-If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.

-There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

-I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth

-The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

-The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

-I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

-What in the world would we do without our libraries?

-I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.

-Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

-Listen to the song of life.

-The time to make up your mind about people is never.

-You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

-To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

-I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

-If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

-What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong…but don’t just avoid.

-Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

-Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

-My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she’s so – so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They’re the best.

-You give because you love and cannot help giving.

-I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

-I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’

-I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

-It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

-The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

-Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. “Beat it”, I said, “go sit on a tack!” “We made you”, they said. “Like hell you did”, I told them.

-Love fattens on smooth words.

-It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

-Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

-All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.

-It’s how you live that really counts

-I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.

-Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

-I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

-I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

-To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.

-I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

-People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

-I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

-Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

-I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.

-I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

-As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

-I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.

-A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.

-Time is the stuff of which life is made.

-I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.

-Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

-The lack of work destroys people.

-If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.

-I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

-You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

-He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

-People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

-Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

-Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

-Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.

-Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?

-Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

-I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.

-The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

-Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

-I was fearless…and lawless.

-Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

-Bogart was like Henry Fonda – proud and happy to be an actor.

-Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

-I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.

-It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

-Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.

-A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

-I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

-It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.

-What acting means is that you’ve got to get out of your own skin.

-It’s a bore – B-O-R-E – when you find you’ve begun to rot.

-I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

-Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

-How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

-I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.