A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?