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

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

It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

I’m shy and can’t for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back.

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.

I’m working myself to death.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.