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.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

Everybody has something to conceal.