Quotes

[on his ex-wife, Joan Crawford] She's like that old joke about Philadelphia: First prize, 4 years with Joan. Second prize, 8 years with her.

[of Phantom Lady (1944)] I may have gotten the star billing but it was truly Ella's film.

Actors suffer from being half narcissistic and half self-critical.

You see, when you have so much money thrown in your lap, your conscience is aroused.

All types of women interest me most. An impromptu and brief reply is really an insult to a subject so intricate, so delicate and so inexhaustible. Beauty, brains, buoyancy; face, form, fancy, feeling, fire; sincerity, sophistication, sensitivity-is there any letter of the alphabet that doesn't furnish a hundred headings?

If all young ladies of nineteen were as naturally lovely, unaffected, talented and intelligent as Deanna Durbin, America would indeed be the land of the Pilgrim's Pride.