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.

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

Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

Thriving leaders are the ones surrounded by diverse people from different generations.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

Every action being taken against terrorists requires court order, requires scrutiny.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

I guess it doesn't matter how much homework you do. When you're on set, you gotta forget it and throw it out the window and, hopefully, some magic happens.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death