I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.

It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

At last, the wheel comes full circle

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.

There's nothing weak about being subject to something.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.