I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. |
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. |
I think people have heard the name [Garbo], but I'm not sure that a lot of people out there know and appreciate what she meant as an actress, ... I love that her intelligence is very attractive. It's not just her face, which is gorgeous. It's that she's attractive in a much fuller way than that. |
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. |
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. |
In the end, everything is a gag. |
In the end, everything is a gag. |
It seems our laws are always telling us what not to do - are always keeping us from enjoying ourselves. Human beings are made just as much for having fun as goose-stepping and sweating in factories. |
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. |
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. |
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. |
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. |
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. |
Rudolph Valentino had an air of sadness. He wore his success gracefully, appearing almost subdued by it. He was intelligent, quiet and without vanity, and had great allure for women, but had little success with them, and those whom he married treated him rather shabbily. . . No man had greater attraction for women than Valentino; no man was more deceived by them." |
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. |