I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.