I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

. . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.

Dont retire - inspire...Theres a lot to be done

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"