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

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

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.

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

New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.