Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.

It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike.

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

I never eat before breakfast.

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.