I spent my life in the library reading books.

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.