The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.