A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

I was a dummy in school.

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.

I love women that have an ease to the way they dress. I think Vanessa Paradis and Alexa Chung do that very well.

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?

There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.

For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.