It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have

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

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.

Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.