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.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

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