Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

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.

I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a manner. Where some women wear one or two diamond clasps, she wears four!

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.

About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.