So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.