Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

... 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.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.