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

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

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

Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.