What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.