"Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week."

"I don’t know if I should present this award on behalf of all the cowboys shot in all the John Ford Westerns over the years"

"I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns."

"I thought I might die. But then I thought, 'Other people have made it through these things before'. I kept my eyes on the lights on shore and kept swimming."

"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."