There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts… for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles… these things fill men’s hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul.

[when told not to speak ill of the dead] 'Just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed!'

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Old age is no place for sissies.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.