There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.

One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.

Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.

Say a day without the ever.

As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.