Quotes

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

I do not know whether George Gershwin was born into this world to write rhythms for Fred Astaire's feet or whether Fred Astaire was born into this world to show how the Gershwin music should really be danced. But surely they were written in the same key, these two.

[on Harpo Marx] A genius, with a fine sense of double-entry bookkeeping.

[on the Gershwin brothers] Care must be taken to see that all the wreaths addressed to [George] do not go to the composer, for it is his elder brother Ira who writes the lyrics which helped George Gershwin's tunes in their journey across the land.

[comparing acting and prostitution]: The world's two oldest professions - and both ruined by amateurs!