Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.

I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.