 Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes. |
| I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe. |
| We had plenty of clothes and no money. |
| I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses. |
| 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. |
| All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns. |
| The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else. |
| When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes. |
| If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought! |
| I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about. |
| The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it. |
| 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. |
| You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often. |
| Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse. |
| I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her. |
| But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun. |
| 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 Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men. |
| 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. |
