I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.

I can't do that to myself...

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.