Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.
By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its spell, for long stretches and short, two times, maybe three, and then quite probably it would choose me never again.
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one that doesn't use colloquialisms, lyrical flourishes, heavy supplies of metaphor, etc. , is a style, and it becomes a writer's characteristic style just as much as a thicker, richer deployment of idiom and vocabulary.
I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.