I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.