 Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. |
| The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. |
| The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. |
| Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. |
| The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. |
| I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. |
| Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. |
| Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. |
| Fake is as old as the Eden tree. |
| Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. |
| I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. |
| They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. |
| A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. |
| If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. |
| Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. |
| I have an unfortunate personality. |
| I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. |
| If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. |
| The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. |
| Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. |
