To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Obsession is a young man’s game.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.