I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.