All you owe the public is a good performance.

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.

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.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

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.

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.’

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