Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

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.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

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

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

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

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.