My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Success doesn't depend upon luck,but luck depends upon success.

Luck certainly has a lot to do with any kind of success. But on the other hand, this is a business in which relationships are very important. And also there is oft times a degree of complexity to those relationships. She was always able to represent my point of a view in a way that made it palatable to whoever she was dealing with.