In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it."

Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.

He's got an option on the Six-Day War, for a musical. Yul Brynner is already as good as signed to star as Dayan.