I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.

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.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

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

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.