But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.
All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.
The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.
I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.
I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.
Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.
Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.
It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
We had plenty of clothes and no money.
If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.
