Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.