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.

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

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.

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.

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

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.