Man’s indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer.
It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick.
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion.
I’ve had a hell of a lot of fun and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.
Women won’t let me stay single and I won’t let me stay married.
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.
I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That’s one of the town’s charms.
They’ve great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.
Someone, I don’t know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.
You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who’s the real you? And who’s the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.
I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some.
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
I’ve made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
I can’t imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things.
Has every oyster a different taste?
I want faith; but I am faithless.
I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich.