You have to fight against being an antique.

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 can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

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

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

For me, being in front of the camera and training go hand in hand.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success.