To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.
don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.
Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.