There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Do not take negative criticisms to heart.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.

I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.