She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.
He who hesitates is sometimes wise.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.
You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.
As you may or may not know, in keeping with the high-class tone of Beverly Hills, our police force is probably the most snobbish group of gendarmes in the world. It is said that the Beverly Hills Police Department is so fancy that it has an unlisted number.