From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Include me out.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I never liked you, and I always will.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

A great mind must be androgynous.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.