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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.
If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.
Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty ...
[about Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle during the filming of Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)]: Oh, I thought he was magnificent in films. He was a wonderful dancer... a wonderful ballroom dancer, in his heyday. It was like floating in the arms of a huge donut... really delightful.
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
In writing the history of a life I believe absolutely that the reader cannot understand the character and deeds of the subject unless he is given a basic understanding of that person's sexual loves and hates and conflicts. It is the only way the reader can make sense out of innumerable apparently senseless actions.
