Rooming Quotes

(on his cameos) "One of the earliest of these was in The Lodger (1927), the story of Jack the Ripper. My appearance called for me to walk up the stairs of the rooming house. Since my walk-ons in subsequent pictures would be equally strenuous - boarding buses, playing chess, etc. - I asked for a stunt man. Casting, with an unusual lack of perception, hired this fat man!"

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.