Eva Marie Saint

“I have no desire to be a star. I want to be a working actress.”

“Old age is not for sissies.”

“I think the thing to do is to be a good listener.”

“I have a good memory for certain things. And a very bad memory for other things.”

“I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.”

“I'm not sentimental - I'm as romantic as you are. I was not a sentimental person, but I couldn't cry when my mother died. I couldn't cry.”

“When you have a child, you are just not a parent of a child; you are a parent of a parent, and that's the big picture.”

“I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That's the key.”

“My theory is, if you have a bad day, you have a bad day. You just move on.”

“I won an Oscar for my first film. I should have been a dental hygienist.”

“I loved working with Hitchcock. He was a master of his art.”