Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.