Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.

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.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.