"The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we’d all loosen up and we wouldn’t need the United Nations.

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.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

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

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.