My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

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

Life is like a B-picture script.

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

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.

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

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.