There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously.  If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't.  Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

She is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.