My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.