All you owe the public is a good performance.

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.

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.

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

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

"The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we’d all loosen up and we wouldn’t need the United Nations.