There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

I understand that we're paid a lot of money and we're in the limelight. When things don't go well, there's deserved criticism.

It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.