My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

I don't act to live. I live to act.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

The person determined to love others will always find a way to do so.

You can be serious without a suit

I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.