Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?