A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.