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

There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

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

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.

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

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