There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

A friend loves at all times.

Nathanial can show me how to better control the change, but even so, you never have to worry about me turning into a cat again. Didn't you know, I'm allergic to cats.

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

Scare the hell out of the American people.

Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.