"I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek."

“Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.”

“We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.”

“I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.”

Source : "Beverly: An Autobiography". Book by Lawrence Linderman, p. 356, 1988.

“History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.”

“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.”

“Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.”

“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”

“It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they work to correct them. We stand up and we use our voices for things other than self promotion. We don't stand by and let racism and sexism and homophobia run rapid on our watch. Real fearless and fierce women complement other women and we recognize and embrace that their shine in no way diminishes our light and that it actually makes our light shine brighter.”