If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

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

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

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.

I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a corset...can`t stub my toe in this picture nor anything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without ever getting hit with anything!

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.