Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

Be afraid of nothing.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.