Actor

I surfed from Baja California to San Francisco when there were only nine or 10 surfers on the entire Pacific Coast. I spent three-month summer vacations in our High Sierra cabin 60 miles from the nearest road. I drank milk from my own ranch.

I do my acting job and then get out on the golf course as quickly as I can.

You have to re-establish yourself in this business about every 10 years.

Pittsburgh, where you once couldn't wear a shirt for more than an hour, is a lot cleaner than Hollywood.

Acting is a great life and all that, but it's the director who is really in control.

We're separated, and I regret to say that we just don't seem to hit it off. I don't know what Betty's plans are. Perhaps she plans a divorce. As far as I am concerned, that doesn't fit in with my scheme of things.

My uncle Les Dolliver was a partner with the Nasser brothers, who owned a string of theaters in San Francisco, and also supplied motion picture projectors and seats for theaters. So I was always around theater people.

In 1938 the Coogan Law was passed in California.

Other boys went to see Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth came to see me.

I am a Catholic.

My Indian name is Bemay-Ultze and means 'talking eyes.'

My hobbies hardly leave me time for work, or vice versa.

Unless I was to play an accepted character from a novel, I won't put on a toupee.

I knew San Francisco when it was a wild place during Prohibition. There were more speakeasies than churches, and you could always get a drink.

The pictures I appear in are shown in school rooms all over the country.

I sure would like to hear from those British and Gurkha knife artists I took into Burma.

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

People respect drama. They don't respect comedy.

I never owned a piano and I never had a house full of period furniture.

If you're known as a dramatic actor it helps you a lot. Even though to me it's simpler, it leaves a deeper impression on the public.