I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.