JIMMY STEWART

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best.

I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.

History by no means guarantees in advance that the broad strata of the Negro population, holding varied and confused views, many dominated by ideas alien to the class-conscious proletariat will fall into the organization of the Communist movement.

I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

The truth is that it's just really hard for me to get to sleep without a dog in my bedroom. I once had a dog named Beau. He used to sleep in the corner of the bedroom. Some nights, though, he would sneak onto the bed and lie right between Gloria and me. I know that I should have pushed him off the bed, but I didn't. He was up there because he wanted me to pat his head, so that's what I would do.

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.