Robert Preston quotes:

I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.

I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.