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

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.

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.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

We're close. I can smell their faint scent, " Blake whispered.Kieran snorted. "That makes one of us. All I smell is dog shit.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whetherit's in the arts, sciences, or business.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

Living too long exacts a painful price.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.