Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

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

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

Weeping bride laughing wife laughing bride weeping wife.

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

Disillusionment is not truth.

It was difficult knowing one of your cousins had lost his life.

I love being verbal in films.