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

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

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

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!

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

The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises [...] the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.