My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

I have no great message to the world.

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.