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

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

"My former wife is a truly wonderful person."

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

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

"I feel that I am a good actor."

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

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

"My brother never had me to dinner in his life."

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

"I had the luck of having an obedient body."

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

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

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

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

"Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything."

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

"Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death."

"You have to fight against being an antique."

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

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