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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.