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.’

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

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

I let my drinking do the talking.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

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

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