I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.

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.

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

I don't feel qualified to talk about my work.

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I`d have material in two minutes, because I`d been doing it all my life.