We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.