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.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.