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.

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.

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.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

In life you have friends and enemies, both can motivate you to be better.

Those with no one to blame are alone with their grief.

A true friend pays attention without seeking it.

In the words of a pastor friend, "Christianity is less about holding on to God and more about God holding on to you.

When pressure's on and when the spotlight's on, I feel like it ultimately ends up becoming some of my better moments.

We work and that is godlike.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

When travelling, dress as comfortably as possible and don't have expectations of everything going perfectly.