“I tried for better roles over and over again.”

If you don’t vary your tones you can’t get pretty tired of your own voice.

I’m no good with words but I’ll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

It’s a funny thing about me. I don’t have any interest in food most of the time now.

You figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone.

It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.

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.

It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

I love food, and I’m a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.

I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.