I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

Stars didn't have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes.

Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.