We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
The wages of pedantry is pain.
Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Not all celebrities are dunces.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
