Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.