64 Quotes by Sterling Hayden

You can't just run away from everything.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

All I need is a place to put my things, somewhere to lay a mattress.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status, simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue put in one's mouth by others.

Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.

I realize now that it is a serious business requiring honest, hard work. The first time Hollywood was served up to me on a silver platter. I've finally gotten rid of the platter.

Only when a film comes along that I really believe in like this one will I turn to acting.

I've been offered the role of Franklin Roosevelt, and I wouldn't presume to undertake it.

I've got a fetish about motors on sail boats. Sailboats were meant to sail.