The secret of comedy is doing it naturally under the most difficult circumstances. And film comedy is the most difficult of all. At least on stage you know right away if you`re getting laughs or not. But making a movie, you have no way of knowing. So you ...
[Charlie] Chaplin is waiting a long time at a trolley car stop. He`s the first in line of what turns out to be a huge crowd. The trolley finally arrives, he`s the first one on, but then the crowd behind him surges through the door and pushes him right thr...
[on Irene Dunne] "Her timing was marvelous. She was so good that she made comedy look easy. If she`d made it look as difficult as it really is, she would have won her Oscar."
A reporter in search of information wired Grant`s agent: "HOW OLD CARY GRANT?" Grant happened to read the message himself, and wired back "OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?"
My father used to say, `Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.`
