There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
Sex is God’s joke on human beings.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Strong women only marry weak men.
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
Your luck is how you treat people.
Yes, burn your bridges.
You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.