"You could heave a brick out of the window and hit ten actors who could play my parts. I just happened to be on the ri…"

"It was a family name on my mother's side, and I thought my own name Pratt, if I ever got known in the theatre might b…"

"The Monster was the best friend I ever had. I'd been in Hollywood for ten years and no one had heard of me except my …"

"My father was such a private and modest man. He did not really bring his career home or talk about other actors, and …"

"I adored making ' with dear Boris Karloff. He refused to do his own stunts, the mark of a true Hollywood star."

"He was a lovely man. We used to have great fun reciting poetry to each other."

"Very grand, but so withdrawn. But he was always polite. A gentleman."

"Boris Karloff's face has always fascinated me, and I made drawings of his head, added sharp, bony ridges where I imag…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"