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.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

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

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.

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

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