James Stewart

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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