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.

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

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

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

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

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

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