My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

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

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

I'm like old shoes, I've never been hip.

An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

I've never wanted to be the boss.