Citas

[on the consequences of being one of the "Dead End Kids"] Everywhere we went, genuine tough guys would challenge us. I've been slugged at least 25 times by guys who wanted to find out if I was as tough as I made out. I've had more black eyes than a prizefighter.

[in 1972, on the "Dead End" films] I think, to a point, they did influence some kids to be bullies. But those pictures really weren't made for American kids. They were made for American adults. They were some of the first social dramas. The public was seeing the dirty laundry, the slums, the garbage. It hurt.

[on working with Bela Lugosi in Spooks Run Wild (1941)] I decided to go over to his dressing room and say "hello". I knocked on the door and introduced myself. Bela was extremely cordial and we spent some time talking to together. "Well, Mr. Lugosi, what do you think of the East Side Kids?" I asked. Lugosi raised his eyebrows theatrically and said, "Scum!". But Bela was only kidding. [He] took his work very seriously and did not like to clown around on the set. But Bela had a great sense of humor! He loved to laugh, but not to be laughed at. That would make him more angry than anything!