Edward G. Robinson

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

— Edward G. Robinson

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

— Edward G. Robinson

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

— Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

— Edward G. Robinson

Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement…

— Edward G. Robinson

I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5"…

— Edward G. Robinson

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger…

— Edward G. Robinson

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

— Edward G. Robinson

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do…

— Edward G. Robinson

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and…

— Edward G. Robinson

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

— Edward G. Robinson

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster…

— Edward G. Robinson

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they…

— Edward G. Robinson

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work…

— Edward G. Robinson