Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.