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

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

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.

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.

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.

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