If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

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

Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Physically, I’m not tough. I may think tough. I would say I’m kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.

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