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.

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.

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

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.

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either, ” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

Loyalty to a wrong person always paid darkness, Nothing else!

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

I don't go to fast food restaurants anymore. That's out.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.