I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.