I stick my neck out for *nobody*!

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

All you owe the public is a good performance.

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.

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.

Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!