"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame." Robbie Burns, aye
"A college is a place where pebbles are polished and diamonds dimmed." Robert Green Ingersoll
"Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage." Alice Ellen Terry
"Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me." David Llewelyn Wark Griffith
"If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!" George Macaulay Trevelyan
"Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine."
"I think, first, that there's too much music in films today."