The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.

If a certain event repeats itself over and over again, it means somewhere someone has destined it

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.

Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.