Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

The night is a strawberry.

Follow your dreams, transform your life.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.