Reported last words, upon being asked if he wanted to see one of his movies on TV: "Absolutely not!" "What do I have to do to prove I can act?" "He was only forty-five when he died. It would have been better for this sensitive man had he never come to Hollywood, never heard the shrill trumpet of success and the canned laughter of this desperate insecure society." - Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham "I love the stage but after a few months you can get tired. I would rather do three movies than play in one stage hit. I played in four flops in a row when I was about seventeen and I was delighted. I was being paid to be trained." "I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?"