I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.