The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

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.

If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.

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.’

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.