Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.