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 hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

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

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.

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