Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin, he had no eyes and he had no face. All he had was a skull for a head.

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.

When I get to Heaven they aren't going to see much of me but my heels, for I'll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church!

I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.