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.

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

No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

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.

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.

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.