The learning process continues until the day you die.
Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
Some find jews to be a convenient scapegoat rather than looking at the real source of their problems.
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
Love has more depth as you get older.
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
Acting is a youthful profession.
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.
It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.
Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
