Her only flair is in her nostrils.

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.