See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

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

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

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.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.