I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.

Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.