You can say things in a comedy that you never can say in a drama.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.

Love is the most powerful catalyst. It can change a heart and the world.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth

People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .