I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

If your priorities don't get scheduled into your planner, other people's priorities will get put into your planner.