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.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

Life is a climb but once you get to the top you'll realize that the view is beautiful!!

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.