Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.
The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is that my habits make me depressed, and the depression makes me want to indulge my habits and so I do. There isn't any solution to this.
We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 911. ' And it was. It was their 911 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.
I just want to make sure that the thing that I see in it initially, that I think it can be, is not just going to be a horror film and reduced to a jump here and a scream there. But that you can take something away from it.