"I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new."

"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."

"If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that."

"What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily."

"To me, success is choice and opportunity."

"I've never wanted to be the boss."

"I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top."

"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."

"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously."

"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"

"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."

"What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."

"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."

"I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact, the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script, I "would "be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again; he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character."

"It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together."

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."

"It sure is hell to be president."

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

"Study men, not historians."

"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great."

"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

"Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past."

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."

"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"

"Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's "going "to vote against me."

"The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction."

"In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity."

"If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house."

"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."

"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."

"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."

"It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work."

"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States."

"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."

"I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody "eating" crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases."

"All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it."

"A President cannot always be popular."

"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

"Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here."

"If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again."

"I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here."

"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."

"The buck stops here!"

"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."

"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's."

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in."

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

"The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness."