There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.