As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

I take a breath when I have to.

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me

The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals