Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

I don't have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I'm not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I'm a professional.

Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.