"What do you want? They'll just say, 'He's only a movie actor!'" -- to biographer Paul Ickes in the 1920s "I'm Lucifer in a tuxedo!" -- about his role in "A Woman's Face" (1940) "It is precisely as if I am possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being."