rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.
What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
Reality is something you rise above.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.
(on Marilyn Monroe) I was walking down Broadway with her and nobody was stopping us. She was going to (Stella Adler's) actors' studio, and she was taking me to show me what it was all about. And I said to her: "How come nobody is taking your picture?" She said: "Well, watch. " She took her scarf off, straightened her shoulders, and draped something another way, and we were surrounded. It must have been 400 people. And I said: "Now I know why!"
Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream
The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.
We must not stand upon trifles.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing. ” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.