A day without laughter is a day wasted. A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk. A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves. All I need to make a comedy is a [...]

As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats. Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. [...]

Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have. But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior [...]

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. Get off your butt and join the Marines! Get off your horse and drink your milk. I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly [...]