I Got A Part As A Chorus

I Never Had The Slightest Difficulty With A Fellow Actor. Not Until One, Two, Three. In That Picture, Horst Buchholz Tried All Sorts Of Scene-stealing Didoes. I Came Close To Knocking Him On His Ass.

My Childhood Was Surrounded By Trouble, Illness, And My Dad's Alcoholism, But As I Said, We Just Didn't Have The Time To Be Impressed By All Those Misfortunes. I Have An Idea That The Irish Possess A Built-in Don't-give-a-damn That Helps Them Through All The Stress.

You Know, The Period Of World War I And The Roaring Twenties Were Really Just About The Same As Today. You Worked, And You Made A Living If You Could, And You Tired To Make The Best Of Things. For An Actor Or A Dancer, It Was No Different Then Than Today. It Was A Struggle.

My Father Was Totally Irish, And So I Went To Ireland Once. I Found It To Be Very Much Like New York, For It Was A Beautiful Country, And Both The Women And Men Were Good-looking.

Learn Your Lines… Plant Your Feet… Look The Other Actor In The Eye… Say The Words… Mean Them.