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

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.

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

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.

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.

I never speak in silence.

Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.