Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

Acting is a form of confession.

I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.