When you make people feel important, you're going to be ahead of the game.
Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.
I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?
Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.
I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.