I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it.

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

I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.