(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."

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

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

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.

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.’

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

There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.