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

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.

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.