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Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I'm a diabetic.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

I played an unsympathetic part
myself.

I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends ... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

Ballet is the fairies baseball.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

So little time and so little to do.

First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue.

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.