I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.