“When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.”

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

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.

Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.

I had best friends who were in the industry, and I’m like, it’s cool if you get a job, and I’m happy.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I’ve always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

It is not your career, your friends, not your possessions, it is your soul.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises’ manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too!