Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.