Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.

It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

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

My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.

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

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.