One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

Many people consider me an old friend.

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.