California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

Change yourself - you are in control.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.