I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested in directing in film is that it would take me, to be as good an artist as I feel I am an actor, it would take me another 35 just to conquer.

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

I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help