So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

There's nothing as real as money.

I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor.

Don't count your blessings, let your blessings count! EnjoyLife!

Let her know that her look really works for you.

My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

I am a Justin Timberlake fan.

I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.