When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.