My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.