I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.