I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

Gary Cooper - the greatest listener in the world! And he used to answer in kind, which is wonderful because you don't see that anymore. People don't listen. They really don't.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

i would say it was nice to meet you, but the fact is it wasnt. in fact, it was quite awkward.

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

Change and decay in all around I see.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose.

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.