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.

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

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

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

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.

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.