Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it...

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it...

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do...

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do...

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success...

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success...

I will never be below the title.

I will never be below the title.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now...

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now...

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given...

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given...

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

I've lost my faith in science.

I've lost my faith in science.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

I work to stay alive.

I work to stay alive.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure....

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure....

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which...

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which...

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years...

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years...