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.

Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

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.

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.