Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

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.

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

For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.

No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.