Occupation: Actor Birth: December 12, 1893 Death: January 26, 1973
The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free..
Nothing human is foreign to us.
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me..
Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed..
I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to ma….
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking ove….
In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer t….
Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace..
Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon….
To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it a….
I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you..
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal..