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

I was never trained for anything

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

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 don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement.

Israel is very much endangering.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

Look at Van Gogh’s paintings: there’s as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it’s boring.