When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.

I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

I never finished the ninth grade.

I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

I'm working out every day. I'm in very good shape.

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.

I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.

In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.

My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of problems.

You can never have too many friends.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.