Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

I'm a lurid character!

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

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.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.