I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

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.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now.

He's such a great threat because of his power and pace. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

To support the people we care about is intrinsic, it is not instrumental. It's not something we do because we're hoping to get some other outcome.

I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.

We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.