Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

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.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.