I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says 'I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

Blessed are you who forgive.You will forever be happy.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.

I want constructive energy generated by every brushstroke and between every line.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.