I let my drinking do the talking.

(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.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

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

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.

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.’

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.