Charles Laughton

“They can't censor the gleam in my eye.”

“I enjoy being a character actor. I enjoy being different in everything I do.”

“Method actors are like hams.”

“Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.”

“It's got so that I am afraid to scratch myself in case I get an Oscar.”

“Audiences are the same all over the world; they laugh at the same things, they cry at the same things, they are moved by the same things.”

“You can't make a good movie without a good story.”

“I have a face like the behind of an elephant.”

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

“If you've got a big gut and you have a good time, you're a jolly fat man. If you've got a big gut and you're miserable, you're a miserable fat man. It's the same thing.”