The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.