My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow.

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

I loved Frank [O'Connor], he was wonderful...just don't get on his bad side. I don't think I would have wanted to marry him, but I probably should have since I married idiots anyway.

America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

Opinions are projections.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.