Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.
What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.
They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.