Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

Kids ... Can't live with 'em ... Can't shoot 'em!

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear. In those early years, I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years, I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself.