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.

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

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.

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

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.