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.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

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

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

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

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