If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

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.

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.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.

What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say “righteous,” I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.