The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.