It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

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.

The truth is, I was always a dreamer, but then I met you, and I knew I will never dream a better dream again.

The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

The law of common sense.