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."

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

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

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

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

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

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.