This is no dress rehearsal.
The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.
No dog ever peed on a moving car.
I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’
You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.
You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.
A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.
Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.
There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.
I’m going to go down and take care of the bill. I’m not going to embarrass you, just let me do it. I had such a great time, I just want it to be my treat. [On returning after several minutes red faced] They won’t take my check, I don’t know what we’re going to do. [Robertson said ‘David, what we’ve spent here, we’re going to have to do a lot of dishes.’] I’m going to call Prince Rupert [Loewenstein] and ask him to call the hotel and tell them I’m good for it. Or maybe he can pay the bill and then I’ll pay him back or something. [Prince Rupert vouched for his credit and the hotel agreed to accept Geffen’s check.]
If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.
A tiny leak can sink a ship.
Creativity is a renewable resource. Be as creative as you like, as often as you like, because you can never run out!
This above all: to thine own self be true.
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.
Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.
Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.
One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.
Who we are now is all that really matters.
People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
There are some sick people in this world.
I don’t know how to drive.
