Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

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.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are messy about it, particularly about their lipstick. I don't mind wiping lipstick off myself, but I hate seeing it on cigarettes, napkins and coffee cups! I don't like women with all their beauty machinery showing-curlers, cold cream, mascara brushes. I'd even prefer to not see a woman touch up her lipstick, but I guess that's expecting too much.