“[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.”

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.

Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.

The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.

By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

I hope baseball doesn’t get to the point where everyone’s saying, ‘He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!’ because not all of us do. I’ve been big my whole life, and I’ll always be big. That’s all natural.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.

Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

The big difference that I notice, and this is what all love as New York city and Philadelphia has treated me fantastically, but man, you cannot screw up in Philadelphia and New York.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts