Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

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 mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?