Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger.

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

Stop wasting while waiting.....continue acting.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises “before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers

A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.