Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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.

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

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.

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.

In singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up in volume.

Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says `I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'