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

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.

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.

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

Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I’m still the Shogun.

I have my ups and my downs like anyone. All I can do is be me.

Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave.

It’s always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone’s seen the last one.

Our – our friends can’t trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won’t even give them offensive weapons.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.