My credit is nothing to the United Artists. If my credit was run like that of the United Artists I would be penniless today. Any business dealings I may be forced to have with him will be done as though with a total stranger.
Writers who have been taught to express themselves in the written word find difficulty in expressing themselves in action. It is like elderly persons learning to speak a foreign language, they speak the motion picture language with an accent. We will get away from this by using those from within who have grown up in the industry. They will know no other tongue.
I thought I had seen Charlie in a tantrum, but this beat everything.
I hated the world, 'movie' and had hated it from the first minute that I saw it in the advertising of the Majestic Company, a rival company to the Biograph with which I worked. 'A movie a minute, ' was their slogan.
I can close my eyes now and hear that scream of mother's at the moment my father passed on.
No one can have an idea of what this means who has not personally looked for work on the stage.
Whenever I do something that seems pretty good, do you know what it is to me? It is a whip to beat myself with!
To me, David Belasco was like the King of England, Julius Caesar and Napoleon all rolled into one.
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
I can't afford to work for only $10,000 a week.