What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.