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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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