I Never Said, 'mmmmmm, You Dirty Rat!

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.

There's Not Much To Say About Acting But This. Never Settle Back On Your Heels. Never Relax. If You Relax, The Audience Relaxes. And Always Mean Everything You Say.

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.

Though I Soon Became Typecast In Hollywood As A Gangster And Hoodlum, I Was Originally A Dancer, An Irish Hoofer, Trained In Vaudeville Tap Dance. I Always Leapt At The Opportunity To Dance In Films Later On.

Absorption In Things Other Than Self Is The Secret Of A Happy Life.