The right partner in a film is equal to half the audience!

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.