One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

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.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

Are you depressed?""What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone?

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if you're doing stand-up, it's inclusive.

... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.