Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

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.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

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.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.