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

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.

(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."

I stick my neck out for *nobody*!

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

All you owe the public is a good performance.