I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.

All you owe the public is a good performance.