We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.