I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]

I'm a lurid character!

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy - all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.