Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
Every new time will give its law.
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.