Sometimes it's nice to know that what you've done has been appreciated.
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.
If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.
I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.
As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special.
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
Every copywriter knows what it is to struggle with a copy for hours, for days - fixing it, polishing it, rearranging it. We have all been quilty of leaving the headline until the last and the spending half and hour on it - or perhaps only ten minutes.