Track and field has always interested me.

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.

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

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.

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

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

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956