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.

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

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

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

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.

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