Just not relax and say we beat Dayton and Amity last year, we made it to the playoffs so we`ll make it again this year because we have all but four guys back. We still have a lot to prove. We can`t just relax.

[on Judy Garland] In some of her films she showed talent which was very comic and touching. Touching because she played with a bright smile and a great spirit, while the situation was rather dramatic, even tragic perhaps. She had in fact a quality which can only be compared to Charlie Chaplin`s heartbreaking quality: always optimistic, always gay, always inventive, against poverty, against desperate situations -- and that`s when Judy is at her best.

I`m not promising a state championship, but we should go far.

[on Bette Davis] The greatest actress of all time.

All of the villains in my life have been great smoothies.

It`s outrageous, ... highway robbery. ... Who can pay on a $200,000 house 15 percent for fees?

I don`t think you should hurt or kill animals just to entertain an audience. Animals should have some rights. But there are a lot of directors, including Ingmar Bergman, who will injure animals to further a plot. I will have none of it.

[on Joseph L. Mankiewicz] "Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve" were marvelous films. I thought that the last good film he made was "Five Fingers," because personally I have not seen a Mankiewicz film that appeared to be well-directed since then. For instance, "Cleopatra" was a hideous film but nevertheless you could see that it had some good, well-written scenes and the director had not served the writer well.

[on Max Ophuls] I loved Max Ophuls because he had a very unsuccessful career as far as America was concerned, but he had an irrepressible spirit. He was a brave, resilient man and a great man of theatre and he loved his work, he had an undying enthusiasm. He was a lovely man.

[from Bill Fairchild] In a noisy world he spoke quietly, and yet his voice will be remembered by millions who never knew him.

[on Alfred Hitchcock] You can see from the way he uses actors that he sees them as animated props. He casts his films very, very carefully and he knows perfectly well in advance that all the actors that he chooses are perfectly capable of playing the parts he gives them, without any special directorial effort on his part. He gets some sort of a charge out of directing the leading ladies, I think, but that`s something else.

[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`s posturing technique with an equally polished vocal technique has a perfectly fair chance of becoming his romantic peer. It was his magnetism and dignity that assured him a peak of magnificent isolation.

If a bank reruns a credit report and sees a late mortgage payment or any change in the borrowers financial picture, it would be reason for the lender to withdraw the loan.

What`s going to make the season is the people you don`t expect to do much to do a lot,

I know Joel has been working hard at quarterback — reading defenses, working on his footwork — so he should be better this year. And he`s been working with other receivers. I was pretty busy, ... but I`ve been playing catch with him all my life, so that connection is already there.

[1970 comment on Jean Renoir] He`s my style. Renoir`s good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and "La Grande Illusion," which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year -- the acting and the staging of it is absolutely modern and true.

[on Raquel Welch] I have never met someone so badly behaved.

How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.

It`s crucial that the homeowner be up front with lender regarding all aspects of his profile.

I`m not aware of any active search for it. It would be very difficult to find in that (cornfield) — like a needle in a haystack.

[on Alan Ladd] Having been fascinated by the Alan Ladd phenomenon, I now had the opportunity to study it at close quarters. It turned out that he had the exquisite coordination and rhythm of an athlete, which made it a pleasure to watch him when he was being at all physical.

[on Max Ophuls] A shot that does not call for tracks is agony for dear old Max.

I`m a character actor: the public never knows what it`s getting by way of a Mason performance from one film to the next. I therefore represent a thoroughly insecure investment.

I purposely would not go and see the old version of "Here Comes Mr. Jordan." They told me my part was played by Claude Rains, for whom I have an infinite admiration, and I knew I would never be as good as him.

[on Carol Reed] He was always a director who got as much out of actors as could possibly be gotten. And he could stage individual scenes as well as they could possibly be staged. If he had a weakness, which I admit he has, it was that he didn`t have a sufficiently keen story sense.

[on Louella Parsons] Not a bad old slob.

[on Walter Wanger] Walter Wanger was a man who always wanted to be European. He didn`t know how to be European but he wanted to be European so "The Reckless Moment" was rather the kind of film -- I suppose, like "Brief Encounter" -- that he was trying to make, but it wasn`t very good.

[on not showing up at the 27th Academy Awards, even though he had been nominated as Best Actor for A Star Is Born (1954) and had agreed to go] The Oscar show is always a little better when things go wrong, so I had no need to feel guilty about letting them down.

[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`s posturing technique with an equally polished vocal technique has a perfectly fair chance of becoming his romantic peer. It was his magnetism and dignity that assured him a peak of magnificent isolation.

[on Walter Wanger] Walter Wanger was a man who always wanted to be European. He didn`t know how to be European but he wanted to be European so "The Reckless Moment" was rather the kind of film -- I suppose, like "Brief Encounter" -- that he was trying to make, but it wasn`t very good.

[on Raquel Welch] I have never met someone so badly behaved.

[on Judy Garland] In some of her films she showed talent which was very comic and touching. Touching because she played with a bright smile and a great spirit, while the situation was rather dramatic, even tragic perhaps. She had in fact a quality which can only be compared to Charlie Chaplin`s heartbreaking quality: always optimistic, always gay, always inventive, against poverty, against desperate situations -- and that`s when Judy is at her best.

[on Alfred Hitchcock] You can see from the way he uses actors that he sees them as animated props. He casts his films very, very carefully and he knows perfectly well in advance that all the actors that he chooses are perfectly capable of playing the parts he gives them, without any special directorial effort on his part. He gets some sort of a charge out of directing the leading ladies, I think, but that`s something else.

[on Alan Ladd] Having been fascinated by the Alan Ladd phenomenon, I now had the opportunity to study it at close quarters. It turned out that he had the exquisite coordination and rhythm of an athlete, which made it a pleasure to watch him when he was being at all physical.

[on Joseph L. Mankiewicz] "Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve" were marvelous films. I thought that the last good film he made was "Five Fingers," because personally I have not seen a Mankiewicz film that appeared to be well-directed since then. For instance, "Cleopatra" was a hideous film but nevertheless you could see that it had some good, well-written scenes and the director had not served the writer well.

I purposely would not go and see the old version of "Here Comes Mr. Jordan." They told me my part was played by Claude Rains, for whom I have an infinite admiration, and I knew I would never be as good as him.

[on Carol Reed] He was always a director who got as much out of actors as could possibly be gotten. And he could stage individual scenes as well as they could possibly be staged. If he had a weakness, which I admit he has, it was that he didn`t have a sufficiently keen story sense.

[1970 comment on Jean Renoir] He`s my style. Renoir`s good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and "La Grande Illusion," which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year -- the acting and the staging of it is absolutely modern and true.

[on not showing up at the 27th Academy Awards, even though he had been nominated as Best Actor for A Star Is Born (1954) and had agreed to go] The Oscar show is always a little better when things go wrong, so I had no need to feel guilty about letting them down.

I`m a character actor: the public never knows what it`s getting by way of a Mason performance from one film to the next. I therefore represent a thoroughly insecure investment.

How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.