It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.

There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.