If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

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

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

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

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.