"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot"

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

"Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie."

"Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?"

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."

"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature."