Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

If you can't talk about, write about it!

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and push it to an even more extreme extreme.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.