Kids ... Can't live with 'em ... Can't shoot 'em!

- Burgess Meredith

Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.

- Burgess Meredith

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

- Burgess Meredith

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and…

- Burgess Meredith

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

- Burgess Meredith

Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

- Burgess Meredith

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

- Burgess Meredith

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

- Burgess Meredith