The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.