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

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

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

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

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

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

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.