I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

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.

Love is like electricity, you can’t see it, but it can enlighten you or it can burn you.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

No person can comfort like a dog can.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them.

The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.