There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.

I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.