The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

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.

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

I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.

Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.