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.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

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

I`m sick of carrying guns and beating up women.

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.

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.