I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Give me a meaningful love or a beautiful death!

To be the salt, you also need to be the shaker. To shake the world. Shake the truth. Shake the people. Shake the word. Have it sprinkle, melt and preserve humanity.

I write because I can remember and to keep those memories alive. I write for pleasure. I write because I must.

Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free.

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?