The studios wanted to give me the Monroe-type sex buildup. I wanted to develop my acting, not my body.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

When Mel told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: 'Bring her over. I'll be in the kitchen- with my head in the oven'.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of p…

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, 'Aren't you tired of always playi…

'Though acting came first, I love to sing,'