A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.