What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

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.

To be a Jew is a destiny

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

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