"Deep down he is a gentle, obliquely witty man, possessed of many, many more talents than the acting by which he is kn…"

"I usually take no notice of reviews unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about …"

"For a while it looked like I was going to be stuck in westerns. I figured out I could make 6 a year for 60 years and …"

"She may have been right. Looking back, I suppose I was expecting, as a young actor, to discuss Stanislavski or 'Actin…"

"No. But it was indicated by other people that I should go there—like my wife, my friends, the woman from Alcoholics A…"

"Listen, when I arrived in Los Angeles in the early '40s, there were just 640,000 people. Every loser in the world hea…"

"Yeah, I'm unique—like an actor who has only one eye in the middle of his forehead. Or the Elephant Man. I've got a pa…"

"Got the same attitude I had when I started. Haven't changed anything but my underwear. I've played everything except …"

"Hey, I get enough exercise; I breathe in and I breathe out."

"You know you can't act, and if you hadn't been good-looking you never would've gotten a picture."