I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The.

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

People should learn that you cannot dwell in your past. One who dwells in the past hurts not only himself, but also the people around him.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.