“My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter’s dream.”

He has a heart of gold – only harder.

When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too.

Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance.

Aren’t grown up people just little children at heart?

I’m a Red-baiter; I’m a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it.

All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes.

In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me.

I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.

I love Oklahoma. The fans have been with me every night. What more can you ask for?

You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.

Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.