The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.

I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself.

I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.

Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

Learn early, learn often.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.

Don't listen to you customers. They don't know what they want anyway.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.