“Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.”

I’ve always had a great respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me.

I take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.

I know what’s good for me. I can’t play black or gray. I can’t be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

If you can figure out my success on the screen you’re a better man than I.

Maybe I can’t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what’s good for me.

Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I’m not, and there’s no use wishing

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

I’m shy and can’t for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back.

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.

It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.

I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

I’ve gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I’ve become much more aware of structure than ever before. Also, you really weigh every word. There’s no closer reading then when you read to translate.

I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I’ve worked with women, I’ve never had an issue with women.

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you’ll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.