I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

To be a Jew is a destiny