Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

You are never too old to become younger!