An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

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’m 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. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’