When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

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

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

When I used to be a contract player in 1954 at Universal, I wasn't getting good roles. I was getting one-liners, and then I'd be gone. But I'd hang around; I'd watch guys. And when I had days off, which was most days, I'd go down and watch other sets while they were shooting. Watch Joan Crawford or whomever. Just watch how they worked and how the director handled them. I didn't know anything about making movies, and there's a lot to learn.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.