If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

It feels good. It feels real good.

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Religion is not the most important thing.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one