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.

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.

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

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.

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

He spins us both, wrapping us in his wings until I’m dazed and gig

The resting place of the mind is the heart.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.

God is all powerful, He's in control.