Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

Only poor people know the true meanings to feelings.

The resurrection is our great hope.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.