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

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

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

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

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.

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.