Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

And once by God, I was a Marine!

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

There are two types of people: those that are going somewhere and those that ain't.

Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.