...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything—even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

Actually, I'm 130, but 125 is what I put on my resume, because that's what I look like I weigh.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

You don't need the fame to be vital.

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.

If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born