We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.