When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.