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.

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.

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.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

It took me 25 years for me to realize who I am. Now I'm going to use the next 75 years to focus on how I want to be remembered. One quarter down, three to go!

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

He was a serial dater, and she was a serial killer. Justice brought them together.

It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me. Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.