Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

The Postman Always RingsTwice.

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

Faith is Feeling Alive In The Heart.

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.

Be real to others. You can be fake only to yourself.

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.