In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

Only a few things are really important.

No vice is so bad as advice

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features