I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

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

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

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

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.