American Quotes

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

I've got a lot of ham in me.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

That's all there is; there isn't any more.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.