Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

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

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

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

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

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