The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Let us fight to free the world!

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.