People are forever reminding me of my responsibilities to my public. Well, I don't owe my public anything except a good performance. That's what they paid for and, if they get it, we're even-steven. Instead I'm expected to go around bowing and scraping to my public. Hell, if I bowed every time they told me to, I'd be spending all my time on my knees!

As quoted in: Hollywood Legends: The Golden Years of The Hollywood Reporter (Tale Weaver Pub., 1988), p. 241