"I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good."

"All my children inherited perfect pitch."

"A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me."

"Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else."

"In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'"

"Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities."

"I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."