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.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.