I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

The reward is in the doing of it.

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.