“Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.”

“Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.”

“Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.”

“Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.”

“George Murphy tagged that name 'Butch' on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.”

“George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.”

“I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.”

“I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.”

“I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.”

“I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.”

“If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!”

“If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.”

“I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.”

“I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.”

“It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.”

“Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.”

“People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.”

“Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.”

“The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.”

“They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.”

“They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.”

“Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.”

“We had plenty of clothes and no money.”

“We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.”

“Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.”

“You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.”