A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.