Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.

I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.

You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.

I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.