Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

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.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.