I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.

Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.

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

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

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'.

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.