“Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was...” — Fay Wray Quote

“Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.”

“Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.”

“Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!”

“If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.”

“I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.”

“I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.”