Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women..

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter..

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Ar….

I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky..

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered..

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made..

Even a true artist does not always produce art..

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real..

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome..