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.

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.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

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'.

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

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

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