I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

You know, it's a long world.