Quotes

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

[signature speech when audiences demanded encores] Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

[on playing Nat Miller, the father, in Impétueuse jeunesse (1935)] This fellow [Eugene O'Neill] doesn't ring the bell, he lets you pull it. The play just shows you this fellow's observations. You wouldn't call it a part at all. It's a study.

[on his daughter Georgette] The kid's got everything. She can act, sing, dance, write and is an accomplished musician. How far she goes depends on just how much attention she gives it.