You will never be pretty enough, skinny enough, smart enough, successful enough, or famous enough for the media

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

Joy is something we can’t manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.