Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life..

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache..

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion..

Strong women only marry weak men..

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going..

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater..

You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain..

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scen….

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must….

She's the original good time who was had by all..

It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for b….

[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of t….

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps..

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star..

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling..

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with..

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me..

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director..

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose..

You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them..

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep..