This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.

Method actors are like hams.

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.

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

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.

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

Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."