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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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