Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.