Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

I want to be alone.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

I love to smile.

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

I never smile unless I mean it.

A smile is the universal welcome.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.