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

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

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.