There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.