- [on Charles Chaplin] He calls me his teacher, but I have been the happy one, to take lessons from his school.
- I've always been an incurable romantic.
- [In the early 1910s] When we do a film, I tell my story to my actors; I explain how I want them to behave; we rehearse once; and we shoot.
- Yes, I have been on the stage. I started on the stage. But stage comedy and screen comedy are entirely different. One must think more to be successful on the screen. On the stage, one relies on the physical appearance, on the voice, on the wit and repartee of the play, as well as on personality. On the screen, you rely on your own action, on your own ability entirely, to express a thought or emotion. But it was hard for me to get on the stage. My parents were stage folk, but they did not want me to act. At twelve I was sent to a school in Bordeaux, where I was born, to be an artist. I did not like the work.
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