I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

Of course, western is my native music.

If you hesitate to learn from others, you will never learn anything new.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

To find a good story, you’re generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn’t mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.