The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.
I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.
Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.