Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

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

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.

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

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

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