Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.