If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

I don't know what the future holds.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

Crying is part of the adventure.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

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I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's good for the character.