"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

"Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are."

"I've got a really sweet tooth and sometimes I just have to have some chocolate."

"A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."