But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

I don't act to live. I live to act.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole.

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok, It's part of the journey.

The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.