There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.
I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations. . . Anyway, I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western.
People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.
After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.
I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.
A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology , sociology , economics , linguistics , art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it the element of the sacred.
Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is.
The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.