I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.