“- Paula Jordan: I'm awfully jealous of the play. Are you really going to act in it?
- Larry Renault: Oh, my agent's bringing Bauman up here this afternoon. I might as well sign the contract.”
Madge Evans - Paula Jordan
John Barrymore - Larry Renault

“It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.”
Christian Bale

“You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.”
Christian Bale

“All you owe the public is a good performance.”
Humphrey Bogart

“Those two fellows we created, they were nice, very nice people. They never get anywhere because they are both so dumb, but they don't know they're dumb. One of the reasons why people like us, I guess, is because they feel superior to us.”
Oliver Hardy