I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

He will always be my Sir Galahad.

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.