Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

I was a fat-headed guy, full of pain.

...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.

Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.