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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.