Even the littlest angel can be heard
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My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
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Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.
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My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a- bitch.
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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Cher: I think, no, no I am certain that you are the most unattractive man I have met in my entire life. In the short time that I have known you, you have demonstrated all of the loathsome characteristics of the male personality, AND even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, morally reprehensible, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor, and you smell. You know, you're not even interesting enough to make me sick. Jack Nicholson: Uh, do you want to be on the top or the bottom?
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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.
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The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
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She proceeds to dip her little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt the mixture at all her friends.
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear
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For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
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You make me want to be a better man.
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My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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What if this is as good as it gets?
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
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I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
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There are only two types of aircraft – fighters and targets.
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If they're just off by 10 percent this year, we're wiped out. To be conservative we have to recognize it could happen like last year.
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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
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If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two! by
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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and I suppose the most you can hope for is to make some kind of difference, but what kind of difference have I made?
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, i...
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