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

If I had my way, I’d do all my entertaining on the front steps.

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.

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 know my flavor’s going to work because I just know there’s not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what’s that about you.

Once I realized music was working, I was getting money off of shows and I figured that I could find success through music.

Think you figured it out, but you don’t have a clue. Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

Plans have changed. Life looks different. & now we’re all figuring it out as we go.

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

When it comes down to it, I’d rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.