Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.

When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.