- [on working with Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)] He was a perfect gentleman, and so helpful to somebody who hadn't done very much acting. He would ad-lib out of habit--he just couldn't help it. He certainly didn't do it to throw you, and if he did throw you, he was terribly apologetic and sweet. The only thing was, it was very difficult to look him in the eye without breaking up--he had that angelic face. He was a naughty little Peter Pan, he never grew up. And although he was a child, you can't be that great a performer without being a true sophisticate. And he was that. Many children are most sophisticated, and Lou was a very sophisticated child. I thought he was the greatest comedian I had ever seen. (Quoted in Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, by Bob Furmanek and Ron Palumbo.)
- [In 1947, from the New York Times] In England, I was nearly always cast as someone of mysterious origin, not too clearly designated but probably from some Southern European country. Here, they decided in my first film The Secret Heart (1946) that I should be a Yankee. I my second film, I'm definitely English. It's all rather confusing, I must say.
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