Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?