“In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain.”

He has a heart of gold – only harder.

When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too.

Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance.

Aren’t grown up people just little children at heart?

I’m a Red-baiter; I’m a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it.

All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter’s dream.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me.

I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.

I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.

I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I’m a country boy at the end of the day. I’m going to pick up the phone and tell you I’m going to sue you.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.