And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. . . But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others