The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

There's an old saying, " Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

We are going to do everything that we can to protect working families in this country.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

Obviously it could be, because it was.