Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.
Truth is too naked. She does not inflame men.
I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.
I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify.
It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.
I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.
I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
There's no need to go the full hog - a touch of subtle sequins will lift any outfit.
I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.
I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.
It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.
A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.
I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?
Fashion always was a huge interest of mine. I love beautiful clothes. I appreciate fine beading and lovely fabrics.
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
