You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.