Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

I work to stay alive.

Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.