If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

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.

In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

I'm just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'