I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.

I’ve been things and I've seen places.