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.

Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

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

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

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