I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

To be a saint is to be yourself.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.