But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

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.

For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.

Stars on the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins.

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

A woman isn't very powerful without her intuition.

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

We're asleep until we love.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.