Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.