"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."

"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure."

"She's the original good time that was had by all."

"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being."

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."

"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."

"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."

"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."