[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

A man's kiss is his signature.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

A hard man is good to find.

Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.