The first thing my agent told me in 1959 was he said you have to have something recognizable that people will remember. “What are you? Do you have cleft in your chin? You have a Jimmy Stewart kind of talk?” And I thought I don’t know what I can give them that will be different.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

I was a hangover of that era where they’d say “Take off that medal! Is that a St. Christopher medal? You’re going to lose your audience with that.”

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

I look at scripts as good or bad. If it's bad, it better pay a lot of money.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.