I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

There may be arrangements to have me retired but I don't know. Things happen that I enjoy doing, and as long as I enjoy doing them I'll go about doing them, I guess.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

I think one of the things that is important, for me, though a lot of people would disagree with me, is that you be founded in theater so that you understand what an audience is, what kind of an animal it is and how to play with it. How to have fun with it, how to sympathize with it, all the things that an audience is. I don't think you're going to find that out unless you do theater.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

We all have our limitations.