Goddamn Quotes

I never had a goddamn artistic problem in my life, never, and I`ve worked with the best of them. John Ford isn`t exactly a bum, is he? Yet he never gave me any manure about art. He just made movies and that`s what I do.

I made up my mind that I was going to play a real man to the best of my ability. I felt many of the western stars of the twenties and thirties were too goddamn perfect. They never drank or smoked. They never wanted to go to bed with a beautiful girl. They never had a fight. A heavy might throw a chair at them, and they just looked surprised and didn`t fight in this spirit. They were too goddamn sweet and pure to be dirty fighters. Well, I wanted to be a dirty fighter if that was the only way to fight back. If someone throws a chair at you, hell, you pick up a chair and belt him right back. I was trying to play a man who gets dirty, who sweats sometimes, who enjoys kissing a gal he likes, who gets angry, who fights clean whenever possible but will fight dirty if he has to. You could say I made the western hero a roughneck.

John Wayne had four inch lifts in his shoes. He had the overheads on his boat accommodated to fit him. He had a special roof put in his station wagon. The son of a bitch, they probably buried him in his goddamn lifts.

I don`t understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who`s the real you? And who`s the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

I`m a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion, I want them to stop pissing on my money and your money, the tax dollars that we give 50 percent of, or 40 percent of, every year, and I want them to be fiscally responsible, and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I`ll say I`m a Republican. But other than that, I want the government to take care of people who need help, like the kids in foster care, the half a million kids who are in orphanages right now - they call them foster homes, but they`re orphanages. I want them to take care of the elderly and give them free medicine, give them whatever they need. There`s tons, billions and billions of dollars that are just being wasted. Okay? I hate government. I`m apolitical. Write that down: I`m not a Republican.

I`ve always followed my father`s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.

(on his co-star Harrison Ford)I`ve been fortunate enough to work with Harrison on (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the) Crystal Skull, and I can honestly say it is a dream come true. He`s a man`s man. And he`s incredible because he make movies even better, because we love him as much as Indy hates snakes, and because he`s captain of the goddamn Millenium Falcon!

(on his first show after the September 11th terrorist attacks) "It`s said they were motivated by religious fervor. And if you live to be a thousand, will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddamn sense?"

(on Darryl F. Zanuck) Nobody liked working for Zanuck, the little goddamn Napolean, always walking around with his polo mallet. Nobody had any respect for him except as an executive. And he was a good editor at one time, but he fancied himself a writer, and he was not a good writer.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

I`m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

(on his early dream to be an astronomer) I could study the stars and the planets forever. I always wanted to know why, why . . . Pictures changed my mind. I was too far along in the movie business. But when I go back to Caltech now and hear about things I`m not familiar with, like black holes, goddamn! I get mad. How the hell I ever refused that I don`t know . . . But it seems like motion pictures have a terrible hold on me. I don`t know what it is . . .

All I know is, I don`t do a lot of analysis. I know those words have to move me. I rely on the author. I don`t want actors reasoning with me about "motivation" and all that bull. All I want `em to do is learn the goddamn lines and don`t bump into each other.

Aw, man, is that the only adjective they know? It`s like every time I make a goddamn movie, the word quirky" is hauled out in the American reviews. Now I see it`s being applied to Wes Anderson, too. All of a sudden, his films are quirky. And Sofia Coppola is quirky. It`s just so goddamn lazy."

I`ve always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I`m too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can`t a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it`s a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.

Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation`s history.

Alcoholism is a disease, but it`s the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupis... one of those two doesn`t sound right.