They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Acting is a form of confession.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Acting is a form of confusion.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Its the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes—only sooner.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have time.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

The temple of art is built in words.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.