Everybody at Metro was in my gag department, including Irving Thalberg. They'd laugh their heads off at dialogue written by all your new writers. They were joke-happy. They didn't look for action; they were looking for funny things to say.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

I've simply been brought up being knocked down.

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

It was an event when you could get all three of them on the set at the same time. The minute you started a picture with the Marx brothers you hired three assistant directors. One for each Marx brother. You had two of 'em while you went to look for the third one and the first two would disappear.