I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

I was a dummy in school.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

I bleed myself to be your drink:Is not the blood of poets—ink?

Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?

We live in a world where you can be put to death for your belief and shows how humanity judges in a dreadful motif.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

Most of the smart things I've ever thought or written came vis-a-vis my body.