"Acting on the screen is like acting under a microscope. The slightest movement becomes a gesture and therefore the discipline has to be very severe." "I don't like my face at all. It's always been a great drawback to me." "I've never been one of those stage chaps who scoff at films. I think they're a marvellous medium, and are to the stage what engravings are to paintings." "My idea of a director is a chap who puts me in the middle of a stage and shines a bright light on me." "The art of acting lies in keeping people from coughing." "Actors never retire; they just get offered fewer parts." "Film is a wonderful medium and I love it, but I find that I cannot increase my talent by working in pictures, any more than a painter can do so by increasing the size of his brush." "I have put on so many make-ups that sometimes I have feared that when I go to wipe it off there will be nobody left underneath."