Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says 'I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

I'll take my chances. It has you."And when a great man says something smart like that a smart woman just shuts up.

Representatives of the churches should help guide people in resolving their crisis

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.

The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.