I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.