I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

You need to be silly to be funny.

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.