When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

