The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

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.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

I don't throw things or yell.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.