I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nations Governors highest priority.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.