The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.