We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.