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.

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

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.

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.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.