I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.