I Think Your Whole Life Shows In

The Problem In America As Far As Actors Are Concerned - And It's Probably True In Other Fields, As Well - Is That They Don't Value People Who Are Older Or Talented. I Don't Think Ability Means Anything. How Much Money You Have Or How Much Money You Can Make For Them Are The Only Things They Seem To Care About Or Understand.

He [bogie] Had Tremendous Character And A Great Sense Of Honor And Would Not Tolerate Lies, Even If They Asked Him What He Thought Of A Movie. We Were Once At A Screening At Somebody's House, I Forget Whose, And They Ran A Movie That He Was In, That He Never Thought Much Of. Afterward, The Producer Asked What He Thought Of It, And Bogie Said "i Think It's A Crock." And This Producer Was Horrified! He Was About To Release The Movie, And He Said To Bogie "why Would You Say That?!" Bogie Shrugged And Said "then Don't Ask Me." He Never Played The Schmoozing Game. He Was Not Into That At All.

I Never Believed Marriage Was A Lasting Institution . . . I Thought That To Be Married For Five Years Was To Be Married Forever.

Everything In This Country [the Us] Has Got To Be Good Looks And Unlined Faces And Thin Bodies And People Running Around In Skirts Slit Up To Their Ass. It Has Nothing To Do With Thinking Or With Being A Human Being. There Is Life In Mature People; It's Not All Over At 24½.

I Figure If I Have My Health, Can Pay The Rent And I Have My Friends, I Call It 'content.'