When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.