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.

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.

Dancing came easy to me.

Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.

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.

Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.