Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
Woman is also the element of conflict.
Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.
They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms. . . They call that a profession? Come on!
When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
When I was 14, a lot of people said, "She's such a good actress, she loves theater, she looks like a woman, she should consider moving to L. A. and trying to do this professionally. " My parents were hesitant, but they would take me.
There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.
I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.