If I had it to do over again, I'd probably do everything I did. But that's not necessarily the right thing to do.

Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser - that's my nature.

You can't whine and bellyache because somebody else got a good break and you didn't.

Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.

Give the american people a good cause, and there’s nothing they can’t lick.

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

My folks always let me go to the movies every saturday . We were really motion-picture goers.