Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.