Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Not all celebrities are dunces.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.