Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

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

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

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.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.