Edward G. Robinson quotes:

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Nothing human is foreign to us

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.

Some people have youth, some have beauty â?? I have menace.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart- pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.