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

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.

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

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

Which one is the truth, sir?Which period do you mean, son?

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.

The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn't really think that through.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

The writer is the person who stays in the room.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.