TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

In anger, you look ten years older.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

In singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up in volume.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.