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.

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.

(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.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.