Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock