I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

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

Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.

In Hitchcocks eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the business, which was to be an artist, as an actor, more than anything else. But to get the certain kind of role you want, you have to be in a certain position in the business and it's dog-eat-dog and it gets very hairy and you can lose your point of view sometimes.