Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.