Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.