“If I had my way, I’d do all my entertaining on the front steps.”

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

It’s a funny thing about me. I don’t have any interest in food most of the time now.

You figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone.

It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.

I’ve always had a great respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me.

I take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.

I know what’s good for me. I can’t play black or gray. I can’t be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

If you can figure out my success on the screen you’re a better man than I.

Maybe I can’t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what’s good for me.

Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I’m not, and there’s no use wishing

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.