There are two types of people: those that are going somewhere and those that ain't.

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

And once by God, I was a Marine!

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

ANDREW: But do you think there’s a line? You know, where you discourage the next Charlie Parker from becoming Charlie Parker?FLETCHER: No. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.

You are my angel.

The moment my niece came into the world, I realized that logic can't make sense of someone who's so brand new to you.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.