 Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. |
| The glamour of it all! New York! America! |
| The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. |
| We think too much and feel too little. |
| I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. |
| Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. |
| A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. |
| Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. |
| That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. |
| Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. |
| All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. |
| Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. |
| This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it. |
| I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. |
| In the end, everything is a gag. |
| Why should poetry have to make sense? |
| Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing. |
| I am for people. I can't help it. |
| I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. |
| Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. |
