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.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning.

There are a thousand ways to wealth, but only one way to heaven

Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.

I think my sudden love for this girl is a truer expression of myself than anything.