Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

It is said that people learn to hate each other because of little things ... not big ones. I know I have always learned to love because of little things ... I'm not at all sure that there are any big ones.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two