By Myself and Then Some

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Half of life’s problems disappear when one’s head is healthy.

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

I'd like to meet the man who decided that people do or don't look Jewish. What the hell does that mean anyway? Is it the American penchant for pinning things down, catergorizing, for pigeonholing people? Whatever it is, it's wrong.

From my own self-analysis, which I seldom indulge in, I am what I am.

We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Café de la Paix, where you were supposed to see everyone you knew if you just sat there long enough. To sit at a sidewalk café having coffee or a drink – the sound and sight of France all around. The Champs-Elysées was incredible – the chestnut trees – how could one city attain such perfection? Who had dreamed it up? Who had made it all come true? I wanted to see every corner of it.

Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.

There is always the fear that a wonder of the world can’t live up to expectations. Not so. The Taj Mahal was breathtakingly beautiful – if anything, better even than I’d been told. Beauty like that is too dazzling to be imagined.

The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them.

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The truth is that I wanted it all - all the time. And God knows I tried to have it. And God knows I almost did.

He was so much my life that I literally couldn't think of anything else - had to catch my breath when he went away. Whenever I hear the word happy now, I think of then. Then I lived the full meaning of the word every day. Since then it has been elusive.

Bogie did not believe in in-laws living with husband and wife, and he didn’t believe in anyone dropping in, relatives, even mothers, included. His rule was absolute: Call before and wait for an invitation. His home was sacred, and privacy to be respected.

And making a fool of yourself is something all actors have to risk doing. That’s part of our business. And that too is not the end of the world, though it can seem so at the time