'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.