I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

You can say things in a comedy that you never can say in a drama.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector.