The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.