I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

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.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

I just want everybody to know, on a personal note, from me, sincerely, it was all his fault.