In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

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.

No company has a culture, every company is a culture

Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher... but..."

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

Most rappers these days is actors, And I can't keep watching the same movie.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent.