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

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.

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.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

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

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?