I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

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

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now

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