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I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

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I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for…
I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.
I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.
The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in…
I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends…
I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined…
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward…
If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never…
In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W.…
My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's…
What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who…

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