Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

Life is a sacred service.

Nature can do more than physicians.

I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don’t want to know the time when I’ll have to come to the studio even earlier.

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

I have an amazing relationship with food.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?