"There is no truth which personal vice will not distort."

-- J. G. Holland

“I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.”
“I didnt get to go to prom; I was filming a death scene on my prom night. But I got to go to all the homecomings, and even the winter formals I got to go to, but the only thing I missed was the prom, but everything else was great.”
“Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.”
“Acting is easier than skating in ia way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.”
“When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.”
“Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.”
“Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.”
“A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.”

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