To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.