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Virtue is not photogenic.
Acting is a youthful profession.
Life is like a B-picture script.
Love has more depth as you get older.
I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.
If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.
We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.
You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!
The learning process continues until the day you die.
Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
You have not learned to live until you have learned to give
I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.
With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.
I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.
Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.
My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.
I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.
When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.
Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.
Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.
The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.
Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?
I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.
I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.
What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.
I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.
The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.
The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.
Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.