I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.