My Wicked, Wicked Ways, p 424

"In those days I would pick up a script, or a script would be sent to my home and a description of the male lead would say: Spike Rudling; lithe, lean, handsome, piercing-eyed, a man not to cross. That would be me.

"Today it is so refreshing. I don't have to look any further than the description, of say, Pete Anderson--a once-handsome man, now decadent, a shadow of his former self and who has taken to the bottle and . . .

"Then I know that must be me." - Errol Flynn