What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.

Everyone faces difficulties; not everyone looks for the opportunities in every difficulty.

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.