In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.

When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.