In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.