A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

You have to fight against being an antique.

They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

My former wife is a truly wonderful person.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut and youre no longer a champion.

When two partners always agree, one of them aint necessary.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

I never turned down a mother role.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

I loved my mother, she's a good girl.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

I am scared of becoming a mother.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for "The Exorcist" interview.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.