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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

JEAN
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
COLONEL
Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

You know, Maude ... somebody meeting you for the first time
not knowing you were cracked
might get the wrong impression of you.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

JEAN
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
HARRINGTON
Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

I should have had the pickle.

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.

Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.

I always was and always will be optimistic.

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.