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

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.