“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”

“Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.”

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”

“[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.”

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“I once met a woman who'd been in therapy... and it seemed like the big thing she'd learned was to ignore everything she thought in the first hour of the day. That's when the negative stuff will try...”

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”