All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

I don't act to live. I live to act.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

There are Reasons behind all Decisions.

The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

I live, which is the main point.

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!