My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

The Postman Always RingsTwice.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.

Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.

There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

How good is life, the mere living!