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

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

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

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.