If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?