I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.