I improve on misquotation.

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

I improve on misquotation.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

Insanity doesnt run in my family. It gallops.

A shot of brandy can save your life but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Do your job and demand your compensation but in that order.

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Inequality promotes progress.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And because the Democratic Party was taken over by the aggressive secular guys, they became hostile not just to conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

Every picture tells a story

I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and I can remember what it was like when your barber shop and your local stores weren't air conditioned, so it was hot when you went in them and they propped the doors open.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

There's no tradition today except initials, 'CSI,' 'NCIS,' all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don't know there was a 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' or 'Andy Griffith,' or 'Cheers.'

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception the one who lies with sincerity.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur; take your pick.