Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

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.

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.