Once A Song And Dance Man, Always

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.

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

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

You Dirty, Double-crossing Rat.

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.