It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

You can only lead by example.

I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.