Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

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.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.