Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?