“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”

“The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.”

“I've never been in style, so I can never go out of style.”

“Hidup bahagia ialah yang dipakai untuk belajar, mencari nafkah dan mencintai sesama.”

“A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.”

“My mother painted with water," he says. "And my father played with fire.”

“Later Achilles would play the lyre, as Chiron and I listened. My mother's lyre. He had brought it with him.'I wish I had known,' I said, the first day when he showed it to me. 'I almost did not come, because I did not want to believe it.'He smiled. 'Now I know how to make you follow me everywhere.”