With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

I don't throw things or yell.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?