You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!