In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.

Less gossiping, more encouraging.Less complaining, more thanksgiving.Less criticizing, more complimenting.Less hurting, more helping.Less hating, more caring.

The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

Sustain a bright and joyful spirit.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space?

Its not about being included. It about creating your own space and including yourself and then finding other people that are like okay.