Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

Don't face the facts.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

To be somebody, you must last.