If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

Make subtlety obvious.