I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry