Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.