Nobody gets something for nothing.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.