I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I’d never work again. So I’m going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn’t let me do.

When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

I found a movie called “Light in the Piazza.” I finally made the movie with Olivia de Havilland and myself, but initially there was no way I could make that movie, so I went to work on becoming that character. They told me they had an Italian [actor], and I said, “That’s a Cuban boy!” His name was Tomas Milan. I thought that’s the craziest thing I’d ever heard: They have a Cuban who’s going to play an Italian, and I can’t play it because I’m an American.

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.