“Now the stories about Truman [Capote] are bruited about. The fun sport with some is to attack and to demean him. He is now on a forgiveness tour, which I suppose I, too, am considering. We reach a point in our lives where we see where the mistakes were made…

“Oh, I can find ten or twenty people every day who are smarter and more talented than I am or could be, but I’ll work better than every last one of them. That’s why I’m still around.” “What is inspiration, anyway? You’ve used that word an awful lot. I know…

Elizabeth Taylor: National Velvet was a Christian Science Lesson “God knows I’m not a trained actor. Ask anybody! I learned everything doing it on a set, with great people, for the most part. …

You’re working in it. The show will close. The theatre at the end of the world is not simply that shiny outpost of Branson, Missouri, that operates down in the West 40s of New York City. It’s between your ears. You have been cast — you have accepted your roles — and the play runs on. You can alter the play in which you have been cast, or you can ride it to the end. There is no truth in this theatre.