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.

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

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'.

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

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.