I always wanted to tell stories and act.

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.

To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth

Valuing other people's time starts with valuing your own.

They say the truth will set you free, but what they neglect to mention is what happens when the truth isn't what you want to hear.

I just finished running, and I look and smell like nothing very pleasant. Why, oh, why did he have to bump into me now?

None of us is beyond the task of missions...The question is not whether or not we will be working to spread the gospel around the world, but what role we will play in this.

I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow, these are really great appetizers. I haven't even considered what I'm going to order for the full entree meal yet.'

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

I love everything about the South; I even love hate.

I've always used Old English in certain songs.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.