I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it’s over and done with.
We will sell no wine before its time.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I – but it’s a mistake I can’t regret, because it’s like saying, ‘I shouldn’t have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.’
The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.
A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee – may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.
I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
If I want to pursue the art of painting – or music or writing or sculpture – it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!
I never said I was a genius.
I don’t regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one!
I’m extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be ‘Grand Illusion.’
I drag my myth around with me.
When television came along, I’d already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring – and it didn’t.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows – his own.