When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.

I am a poor man, but I would gladly give ten shillings to find out who sent me the insulting Christmas card I received this morning.

To produce and direct a movie today, a man really ought to have two heads. It is like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of movie-making. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film.

When it rains soup, the poor man has no spoon

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor

Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.