Nothing human is foreign to us

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Nothing human is foreign to us

I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.