Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.