The moment you give me a locomotive and things like that to play with, as a rule I find some way of getting laughs with it.

The camera can't catch my blushes!

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

Schenck was supposed to be my producer but he never knew when or what I was shooting. He just turned me loose.

'I would take a twirling baton and use it as my 'icaphone' - that's what I called it - and lay a towel on the floor as my stage.'

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go 'round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a c…