“That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.”

“And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.”

“But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.”

“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.”

“On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them.”

“But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.”