What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a corset...can`t stub my toe in this picture nor anything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without ever getting hit with anything!

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor. There have been so many that I had to think about that for a moment. Then I said, 'Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd'.

Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.