All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
The glamour of it all! New York! America!
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
