If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.