I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.