I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

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.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.

I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.