The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

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.

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

Dreamers dream the dream, Artists live it.

Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.