The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

People ask me how come you’ve been around so long. Well, it’s through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don’t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

People all say that I’ve had a bad break, but today – today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

There ain’t never a horse that never been rode; there ain’t never a rider that can’t be thrown.

I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

One nice thing about silence is that it can’t be repeated.

One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.

No mistake. I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.