When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

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

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

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.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.