“In Hollywood, you just kind of fail upwards.”

“The way to a man's heart is through his stomach… just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.”

“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”

“You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.”

“There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.”

“You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, "I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer," that kind of Hollywood nonsense.”

“Renaissance Italy became a kind of Hollywood collection of sets of antiquity, and the new visual antiquarianism of the Renaissance provided an avenue to power for men of any class.”

“Here's to opening and upward…
and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.”

“"Why did you fail me? I didn't do nothing!" The reply, of course, is: "That's just it."”

“If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel just like the kind a drug store would sell
When you reach the part where the heart aches come the hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again because the endings just too hard to take..”