Quotes from Fred MacMurray

Just because a woman is beautiful doesn't mean she can't be a good wife. If her beauty affects her personality, then it's her mentality that's at fault... not the tilt of her nose.

I'm just a former saxophone player who got lucky.

I do enough pictures so I ran play golf and go up to my ranch once in awhile. This is what I worked towards when I began in this business in 1934.

We spend a lot of time at the ranch. And June and I spend as much time as w can with the kids. I learned with my first two how fast they grow up.

If I spend a couple of hours practising on the driving range, my 10 handicap becomes a 12 by the time I get on the course.

A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.

I saw a clown knock the head off another clown and I thought it was the real thing. It scared me so much, I made my mother take me home and I've dodged circuses ever since.

Cooking is our hobby. We find recipes we like and then try to turn them into good meals. Most of the time our experimenting turns out pretty well. But sometimes we create lousy dinners.

I don't want the audience to tire of me too quickly. TV would be the fastest way to make them so sick of my face they'd never want to see it again.

You'd think people would regard you as an actor and you could play anything. But with TV they regard you almost as a member of the family.

Being Scottish, I'm probably a little tight, or as the Scots say, 'You're cautious with your money.' I don't think that 's the worst thing in the world to be.

Sometimes a writer writes scenes for people who just say 'Hi' to indicate they're in love. I play those scenes very well.

I'm really not that rich. I really don't know how I got the reputation of being so loaded. Maybe my business manager started it. But I always say that I'm just rich enough that I don't have to do a television series.

I want intelligence in my wife, but not too much she might see through me.

Seriously, I do not think that a marriage can be successful in which either the husband or the wife is far more intelligent than the other.

I don't night-club, don't get into fights or scandals, don't own a yacht, don't play the horses, don't wear plaid overcoats, don't go to Hollywood parties, don't own a motorcycle, don't run back and forth to New York, don't go in for politics.

I like hills and trees.

June cooks, I cook and we have a girl who comes in to clean three days a week. We like that way of living. I suppose a lot of people think we can afford more, but we like it simple.

I haven't the knack of being colorful.

Why should I knock myself out as a producer when there's as much money In acting - and fewer headaches.

We're content to knock around the house.

I never could understand why Leslie Fenton gave up a soft touch in front of the camera to move behind it.

I just don't want to work as hard as you have to for a TV series.

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.