Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist. . . They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.
I'm not going to apologize for being successful.
Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest.
I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've never seen on television. I don't look at our show as a basketball show. I look at our show as a sports and entertainment show.