“There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.”

“With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.”

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”

“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”

“I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.”

“If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.”

“Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”

“Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.”

“Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the me...”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”