Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.