The Postman Always RingsTwice..

New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with wei….

I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealin….

I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!.

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them..

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can..

Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I ….

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could….

My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those mi….

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the wo….

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bik….

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth..

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life..

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean ever….

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell..

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order..

You dirty, double-crossing rat..

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through..

I`m sick of carrying guns and beating up women..