You have Van Gogh’s ear for music.

[ Of Marilyn Monroe :] Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

I’m delighted with [television], because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’re got something to look down on.

France is a country where the money falls apart in your hands and you can’t tear the toilet paper.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Of course, there must be subtleties. Just make sure you make them obvious.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

One day it happens. Success happens and it catches you by surprise. One day you are a signature, next day, you are an autograph.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.