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.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

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

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

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

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

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