It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.
Humphrey BogartIโm not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. Itโs taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, โDonโt take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.โ
Humphrey Bogart