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.

Method actors are like hams.

When the public doesn't want me any longer, I'll quit.

Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. . . . All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance." "I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory."

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

I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man.