[on why he left films] Because I was fed up with them. Everyone thought I was so old, as I'd been in films so long. A Los Angeles paper called me "the perennial juvenile", and I decided that was my exit line.
[in 1970] Most of my films made me sick. I wanted to do more with them, but the material wasn't there.
[about fellow Vitagraph star John Bunny] He looked down on anybody who wasn't as great as he was.