To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
Memory is more indelible than ink.
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.
The first day of the rest of my life.
On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.
Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.
I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.