"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."

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“The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.”

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“Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment.”

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