"The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that."

“Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.”

“Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead”

Source : 1982 Lulu in Hollywood.

“The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer”

“I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.”

“I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave”

“Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.”

Source : George Reisman (1979). “The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls”, Green Hill Pub

“Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.”

“Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.”

Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.9, Courier Corporation