Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

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.

and tonight we held each other, one last time, like a dance to aslow songon an empty floor, underneath a singledisco ballin front of no oneat all

It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.

It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.

I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

Events become feelings, feelings become events

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

You're in charge but don't touch the controls.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].