I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

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 all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

If you are willing to expose your heart...being publicly private, you just may do something.