You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

If people recognize me when I'm out in public, I'm very nice to them. I'm very nice to people even when they don't recognize me. I don't even mind if people come up to me while I'm eating dinner, but if they recognize me while I'm having sex, I refuse to sign autographs.

I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.