The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

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.

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.