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.

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.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

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.

I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a manner. Where some women wear one or two diamond clasps, she wears four!

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.

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