I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

I've lost the one girl I found.

New Jersey gives us glue.

You need to have the means to impose yourself

The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity that's intoxicating

I'm an amazing mama's boy.

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on. You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own you.

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.

I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.