I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.

We're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's, it's not Le Corbusier.

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

My approach to the races hasn't changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.