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

Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

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

There is less in this than meets the eye.

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 think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

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