Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

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

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

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.