"I ad lib most of my dialogue...." - Quote by W C Fields

“I seldom took a drink on the set before 9 a.m.”

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.”

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

“I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.”

“If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.”

“That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.”

“Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

“I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.”