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.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!

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.

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.

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

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.