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

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

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

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

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.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.