"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."

"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did."

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."

"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."