'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.

- Peter Biskind

I've always felt there are three sexes: men, women, and actors. And actors combine the worst qualities of the other two.

- Peter Biskind

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

- Peter Biskind

Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of…

- Peter Biskind

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good …

- Peter Biskind

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

- Peter Biskind

It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from a…

- Peter Biskind

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would hav…

- Peter Biskind