Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

When you smile it's like the sun coming up.

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