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.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

I'm not interested in whether you've stood with the great

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.