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

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

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

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

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’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.’

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