The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason.

Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.

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.

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.