"Hail to the Chief" was played, and the President got up and made a gracious opening remark. "I've been in this office for six years, and yet every t….

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to ….

Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up….

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?.

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life..

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer..

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures..

I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's ….

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right..

Love has more depth as you get older..

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does..

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity..

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?.

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I dec….

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. ….

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to liv….

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing..

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss..

If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed….