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.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

(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 was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

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 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.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.