And once by God, I was a Marine!

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

I can become a positive virus, a hope virus.

What I envisioned to see was a group of guys drinking beer.

You can't blame all people's psychological ills on religion. A lot of people were crazy before they got in a religion and they just happen to be crazy and religious.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Becoming is superior to being.

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

No man can be judge to his own cause.

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been.