The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them.