Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better.

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

And once by God, I was a Marine!

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

I am beautiful soul with beautiful mind and beautiful body.

Sorry, pigtails, but subtlety isn't an option anymore.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...

I don't even think you know how great you really are. I believe in you.

I'm not a very vengeful person. I like to accept people; I tend to see the good in everybody, so I'm kind of stupid like that.

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.

There should not be a party within a party.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.