May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
There’s nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
When you lose a lover it’s like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
My home has always been show business.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.
Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.
I know very little about acting. I’m just an incredibly gifted faker.
It’s hard to get out of the barrel. It’s slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.
People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.
I don’t need an Iron Man suit. I’m already a weapon of mass seduction.
I think it’s miraculous that anybody survives themselves.
Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I’m not afraid of total failure because I don’t think that will happen. I’m not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It’s being in the middle that scares me.
At the end of the day, anything I think I’m sacrificing I’m just giving up because it makes me feel better.
Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough.
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it’s a verb.
The old saying is true, behind every good man there’s an incredible woman.