I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

I was a dummy in school.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

Through it all nobody gets me like you do.