Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says 'I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

We might be hollow, but we're brave

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.

Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

There's a point when you have to stop fightin' the whole world.

Death-counterfeiting sleep.