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.

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

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.

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

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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.