My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.