64 Quotes by Sterling Hayden

I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine — and before we know it our lives are gone.

Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'

There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

I’ve always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can’t afford it. What these men can’t afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine – and before we know it our lives are gone.

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don’t caucus a crew as to where you’ll go anymore than you inquire when they’d like to shorten sail.

There’s is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

I’d rather be wrong on my own than be right on somebody else’s say-so.

I have no respect for acting where I'm concerned.