“Get as much experience as you can so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.”

“I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.”

“My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.”

“I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.”

“Get as much experience as you can so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.”

“The best actors do not let the wheels show.”