Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.