- About everything I ever have done, in the way of lawsuits against studios, I've won them all, because I was right every time.
- Marriage is like the Army; everyone complains, but you'd be surprised at the large number of people who reenlist.
- [Asked if he would ever do a nude scene] I don't do horror films.
- [on his conflicts with Warner Brothers, in relation to his contractual obligations to the television series Maverick (1957)] They really stuck it to me. I was young and dumb. I said a couple things about being under contract that they didn't like, like that I felt like a ham in a smokehouse. They were waiting to get back at me by laying me off. We went to court and got out of my contract. I didn't want somebody in an office guiding my career. If I had a failure, I wanted it to be my failure. If I had a success, I wanted it to be my success.
- I don't like to speak in public. It scares the devil out of me.
- I got into the business to put a roof over my head. I wasn't looking for star status. I just wanted to keep working.
- [on his role as Bret Maverick] I'm playing me. Bret Maverick is lazy: I'm lazy. And I *like* being lazy.
- (on the passing of his good friend Paul Newman) This is such a sad time, I am truly devastated and there are just not enough words to express my sorrow.
- (on Steve McQueen) Steve was my neighbor for some time, I called him "Crazy McQueen", because, quite frankly, he was crazy. We were friends, but he wanted to play my part in Grand Prix (1966) and because of that we didn't talk for four years. He wasn't a great actor, but he was a star - McQueen had probably the highest amount of star quality I've ever seen in an actor.
- [When he entered Hollywood High School at the time his gym teacher recommended him for his modeling job]: I made 25 bucks an hour! That's why I quit school. I was making more money than the teachers. I never finished the ninth grade.
- [Who asked Melissa Gilbert warily]: How long does the speech have to be? Well, this will be shorter than others.
- Something funny happens as you get older, you don't hold back so much.
- [When he got serious into becoming an actor after returning from the Korean War]: I had a wife and an 8-year-old daughter who had just gotten out of the hospital with polio, so I took on that responsibility.
- My wife and I felt we'd just watch the sunset. But then, the phone started ringing with all these wonderful offers.
- [When he smoked marijuana for most of his adult life]: I started smoking it in my late teens, I drank to get drunk but ultimately didn't like the effect. Not so with grass. It had the opposite effect from alcohol: it made me more tolerant and forgiving. I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn't like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don't know where I'd be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I've concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.
- [About contractual problems from Universal]: The industry is like it always has been. It's a bunch of greedy people.
- [When he was married on August 17, 1956, just 14 days after he met Lois]: We went to dinner every night for 14 nights. I was just absolutely nuts about her. I spent $77 on our honeymoon, and it about broke me.
- [Who was never impressed with himself]: I don't like to watch me on the screen, I just don't have a lot of confidence in me, I guess.
- When I'm pushed, I shove.
- [About his dropping out from high school]: I was a terrible student and I never actually graduated from high school, but I got my diploma in the Army.
- My wife would leave me if I played a Republican.
- Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I *know* I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let alone a state or a country.
- I'm a Spencer Tracy-type actor. His idea was to be on time, know your words, hit your marks and tell the truth. Most every actor tries to make it something it isn't or looks for the easy way out. I don't think acting is that difficult if you can put yourself aside and do what the writer wrote.
- [on the death of Marlon Brando]: America has lost its leading film star. He was the best. As far as I'm concerned, he was also a very good friend. The world will miss him.
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