What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.