What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

Rachelle choked on a laugh. “You were always stronger.”“You, ” said Amélie, “were always foolish enough to think that mattered.

Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

It looks like frozen snot.

ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

I don't interest myself that much.