Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

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.

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 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.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.