"I could go to the Lunt-Fontanne and just sit in my seat, and the play would just kill me."
Art
"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."
"It takes a real touch of genius to play a guy when he's looking at you like you're crazy."
Art
"I'm quite the sex maniac in my own way."
"The way they had me in that place, I was more depressed than I've ever been in my whole life."
"I really am quite the sex maniac."
"Nice cars are a nice thing to have. But it can be a funny thing, too, in a way."
"I'd just as soon not talk about it if you don't mind."
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
Strength
"It really does drive me crazy if I think about it too much."
"I don't care if it's a sad book or a happy book. I just don't want a phony book."
Literature
"You take somebody that cries their eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten, they're mean bastards at heart."
"It kills me. Absolutely kills me."
"I've always wanted to be a teacher in a boys' school, but I couldn't ever find a school that would give me a job."
"I really do. I mean it."
"It's a phony world, and all the phonies in it drive me crazy."
"I'd probably be an old man and not able to get around much."
"I'm probably the only guy in the whole world that knows what I'm talking about."
"It really does kill me when somebody says something phony."
Truth
"If you want to know the truth, I don't know."
"I'm quite a salesman, in a way."
"Girls are terrific, but you can't ever find one that doesn't drive you absolutely crazy."
Love
"I'm a very moody guy, and I have a very moody mind."
"The thing is, it really does kill me when somebody doesn't understand what I'm saying."
"That killed me absolutely."
Humor
"I really do mean it. I'm being sincere for once in my life."
"It's a very phony world, and all the phonies kill me."
"I could go on forever about this kind of thing, but it depresses me."
"I'm a very unusual case, in a way."
"That's what kills me about phonies—they don't even know they're phonies."