Ronald Colman Quotes

(asked if "The Story of Mankind" was based on a book): "Yes. But they are using only the notes on the dust jacket."

I persevered in those English films, and persevered is the word, though I am the first to admit that I was a very bad actor in them.

Why should I go to dull parties and say dull things just because I wear greasepaint and make love to beautiful women on the screen?

I loathe war. I`m inclined to be bitter about the politics of munitions and real estate which are the reasons of war. It certainly taught me to value the quiet life and strenghtened my conviction that to keep as far out of range of vision as possible is to to be as safe as possible. "I visited agents, knocked at producers` doors; no one was interested. I was just another stage actor on tour, on the outside of Hollywood looking in. I returned to New York depressed and disappointed."

They talk of the artist finding liberation in work, it is true. One can be someone else in another, more dramatic, more beautiful world.

(To his agent) "Before God I`m worth 35 dollars a week. Before the motion picture industry I`m worth anything you can get."

Whenever I hear of young actors down and out and broke in New York, (and what a cliche of show business it is supposed to be!) I remember my own experiences in 1921 - and find it no laughing matter by any criterion.

Fame has robbed me of my freedom and shut me up in prison, and because the prison walls are gilded, and the key that locks me in is gold, does not make it any more tolerable.