Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.