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.

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 Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

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!

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.

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

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.