If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.